Chris Hedges: It All Goes Back to World War I + Q&A

According to Chris Hedges, liberal institutions are to blame for the downward spiral of the American political system. In his Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2012, he argues that the liberal class—the press, universities, liberal religious institutions, labour unions and the Democratic Party—have forsaken their core values and sold out to corporate interests.

Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio, and the author of such books as War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), American Fascists (2007), I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and Empire of Illusion(2009). He is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University.

I would like you to concentrate on the excellence, the honorableness, the goodness, the wise format of the Dr. Jill Stein the Presidential candidate for the Green Party.

You should work on the media to include Dr. Jill Stein in the debates between the war candidates of the Republican Party and Democratic Party.

The world needs the wisdom of Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala. The world needs a break from the constant killing and devastation of the earth and ignorance and greed of those that seek to rule and possess the world natural resources.

Thanks, Georgianne. I assume you are directing your comment to Chris Hedges, however, it’s very unlikely that he would be reading this blog posts’ comments.

You could try contacting him via Truthdig.org perhaps.

If you want more people to vote for Stein on the Green Party, please consider helping them get ballot access to some of the states that do not have the Green Party on the ballot. See: http://www.gp.org/2012/ballot-access.html

As far as the debates go, it’s very unlikely that any of the third party candidates will be in any of the debates as the Republican and Democratic Parties control the debates.

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